Seth M. Siegel: “Let There Be Water” – Google Talk
Seth M. Siegel speaks at Google:
Yearly Archives: 2016
Seth M. Siegel speaks at the JNF -” Let There Be Water”
Seth M. Siegel speaks at the JNF on Israel and the Water Industry
Jensen on the reduction of Dopamine Receptors from adolescent addiction
Francis Jensen, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania is a fantastic lady. She wrote The Teenage Brain , in 2015. A wonderful book for us laymen. Apparently MRI imaging has allowed for major advances in Brain Research without the need for invasive surgery. Although not the intent of this book, she does make the observation that Ritalin […]
Israel, The Noahide Laws and the Conflict of Cultures #1
Uploaded on Feb 18, 2009 With Tsvi Tal, former Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Professor Aharon Enker, founding Dean of Bar Ilan Law School and Professor Nahum Rakover, Former Deputy Attorney General of Israel, moderated by Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen.
Israel, The Noahide Laws and the Conflict of Cultures #2
Uploaded on Feb 18, 2009 With Tsvi Tal, former Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Professor Aharon Enker, founding Dean of Bar Ilan Law School and Professor Nahum Rakover, Former Deputy Attorney General of Israel, moderated by Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen.
This Is How Music Can Change Your Brain
Melissa Locker @woolyknickers Dec. 16, 2014 Actively learning to play an instrument can help a child’s academic achievement. There’s little doubt that learning to play a musical instrument is great for developing brains. Science has shown that when children learn to play music, their brains begin to hear and process sounds that they couldn’t otherwise hear. This helps them develop “neurophysiological distinction” between certain sounds that can aid […]
How Playing Music Affects the Developing Brain
A seminal article on advances in our understanding of playing music and the developing brain: View Original Remember “Mozart Makes You Smarter”? A 1993 study of college students showed them performing better on spatial reasoning tests after listening to a Mozart sonata. That led to claims that listening to Mozart temporarily increases IQs — and to a raft of products purporting to provide all sorts of benefits to […]
Musical Training Optimizes Brain Function
By Christopher Bergland, www.psychologytoday.com View Original November 13th, 2013 Neuroscientists are discovering multiple ways that musical training improves the function and connectivity of different brain regions. Musical training increases brain volume and strengthens communication between brain areas. Playing an instrument changes how the brain interprets and integrates a wide range of sensory information, especially for those who start before age 7. These findings were presented at the […]
Benghazi Heroes Describe “Stand Down” Orders
Benghazi is still a live issue in American politics:
REASON AND LAW – Morris Raphael Cohen
…the law is not at any time completed but is always being modified in the process of judicial decision. Not only is the common law what the judges have made it but this is also largely the case with our statutory law, of which constitutional law is a special instance. (p. 81) The law …is a self correcting system. (p. 82) The end of law, the administration of […]